Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?

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Currently reading: I struggled to read some of Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min this week. It’s not uninteresting, it’s just my lunch book and slow going because of that. I’ll get through it, no worries.
I’m about a third of the way through A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin. With the show now over, I’m getting ravenous to get more out of the world. I want to be caught up when Martin finally releases the next book. I guess I’m hoping for a different ending.
I got through a chunk of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers on a flight this past weekend. Yes, I’m traveling again. I’m going to use it to my advantage and get through as many books as possible!
I’m making good progress on Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. He’s a great storyteller and I’m loving all the stories of his childhood and growing up in South Africa. I guess my education is seriously lacking when it comes to apartheid so I’m learning a lot.

Recently finished: Nothing new finished this week. It was a slow week of progress, I guess. I’m optimistic Noah will be here next week.

I had two reviews go up this week! The first was for Hawkes Harbor by S.E. Hinton. It wasn’t one I particularly enjoyed if I’m being honest. I really wanted to like it, but I couldn’t. I gave it Two out of Five Stars.
The second was The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob. This one was really fun and I enjoyed the story a lot more than I thought I would. The story was sufficiently complicated to keep me going and I liked the dual timelines. I gave it Four out of Five Stars.

Reading Next: I’m still waiting on Writing Fiction for Dummies by Randy Ingermanson to come in from the library. I’m sure it will be here just when I’m not ready for it. Life always happens that way, doesn’t it? I should expect it by now.

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I’ve never actually watched Game of Thrones but now that it’s finished I’m going to try and get round to reading some of the books before starting the tv show. Looking forward to it but also very intimidated by the size of the books!

Ooooh, Writing Fiction for Dummies sounds like it will be fun and inspiring! I always find that reading about writing makes me want to write. Speaking of which, I haven’t written in awhile, yikes…
What do you like to write? I love writing fantasy. 😄

That sounds really neat! I love Xhosa (don’t know if that’s in there) and hearing Afrikaans makes me laugh. I have a South African Indian friend, so his accent is interesting, and he speaks a bit of Afrikaans.

I really enjoyed Trevor Noah’s book and I felt the same apartheid – I thought I understood but I had really never considered the personal implications of the whole mess. The book is so funny and I could really hear his voice while I read it. Have a wonderful week!

One of these days, ONE. OF. THESE. DAYS., I’ll get to Trevor Noah’s book. I’ve been meaning to read this for ages. I’ve read one book in the past few years on apartheid, but I could definitely use more education on the topic. I’m glad you’re enjoying his book; I’ve heard so many good things about it!

The “Dummies” series is the best, but you NEED to own the books, not check them out.

Last summer I had an “Everything Jane Austin” good time when my book club read Persuasion, a biography, all of Wikipedia (and the places it led) and The Dummies version of Everything Jane Austin. It was encyclopediac about Austin (covering her times, the fashion, food, ettiquette,} ANYTHING you wanted to (or didn’t even need to) know about Jane Austin was there. I wrote tons of notes, copied pages and pages, etc and came away from my three weeks saturation of Jane Austin feeling like I had taken a fun literature course on her alone. Thanks, Third Tuesday Book Club, and a special thanks to Lucia and Debbie for guiding my reading experience!

Sounds like an awesome experience! I’d love to own the books but I’d prefer to borrow it first before I make the purchase. If the method works for me, then a purchase might be in the cards. Happy reading!

I was a big fan of The Daily Show when Jon Stewart was host, so I’ve always been curious about Noah’s book. I haven’t gotten back into the show since he became the new host though. The insight into apartheid has always been a draw nonetheless. Guess that means I just can’t decide whether or not to pick it up. Happy reading!

A friend of mine gave me a copy of Born a Crime because she knows that I’m already a Trevor Noah fan. She said it was really good but, as a person from South Africa, it was really hard to read. Brought back a lot of bad memories. I’m looking forward to reading it myself though.

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